Clerk of the Deliveries of the Ordnance
Office of the Clerk of the Deliveries of the Ordnance | |
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Member of | Board of Ordnance (1597-1830) |
Reports to | Master-General of the Ordnance |
Appointer | Prime Minister Subject to formal approval by the King-in-Council |
Term length | Not fixed (typically 3–9 years) |
Inaugural holder | |
Formation | 1570-1830 |
The Clerk of the Deliveries of the Ordnance was a subordinate of the Master-General of the Ordnance and a member of the Board of Ordnance from its constitution in 1597. He was responsible for keeping record of the number and kind of stores issued from the stocks of ordnance. The office was abolished in 1830.
Clerks of the Deliveries of the Ordnance (pre-Restoration)[]
- 28 November 1570: (d. bef. 1595)
- 18 August 1578: (joint)
- 8 May 1595: (joint)
- 20 July 1602: Sir Robert Johnson
- 12 December 1604: (d. bef. 1606) (joint)
- 6 May 1618: and (joint)
- 17 July 1640 and (joint)
Clerks of the Deliveries of the Ordnance (Parliamentary)[]
- March 1643:
- December 1644:
- September 1646: William Billers
Clerks of the Deliveries of the Ordnance (post-Restoration)[]
- 1660 George Clark (restored)
- 15 April 1670: George Wharton
- 25 November 1670: Samuel Fortrey
- 2 February 1682: William Bridges
- 1 August 1683:
- 2 April 1685: Sir William Trumbull
- 2 December 1685:
- 27 July 1689:
- 15 May 1696: James Lowther
- 15 February 1701: John Pulteney
- 18 June 1703: James Craggs
- 1 March 1711:
- 30 June 1713:
- 2 December 1714: James Craggs
- 24 March 1715: Thomas Frankland
- 16 March 1722: Leonard Smelt
- 31 May 1733: William Rawlinson Earle
- 1 May 1741: Andrew Wilkinson
- 23 April 1746: Charles Frederick
- 26 March 1751:
- 8 July 1758: Sir Charles Cocks, Bt
- 8 December 1772: Benjamin Langlois
- 20 June 1778: Henry Strachey
- 16 October 1780: John Kenrick
- 1 March 1784: Thomas Baillie
- 17 May 1802:
- 10 January 1804: Cropley Ashley
- 12 March 1806: James Martin Lloyd
- 7 April 1807: Cropley Ashley
- 29 July 1807:
- 31 October 1812: Edmund Phipps
References[]
Categories:
- Military history of the United Kingdom
- Clerks
- 1597 establishments in England
- Senior appointments of the British Army
- War Office